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Sweeties, spice, candy dish …

Do you recall small glass dishes usually with some wrapped sweets in them or sugared almonds perhaps? The bowls were themselves decorated with sweet papers – any memory of them? I can still see foil wrappings being smoothed out carefully and being saved and then, when enough had been collected with sufficient variety, an irregular pattern was made by sticking pieces of them on the outside of a small plain glass dish. Once that was dry I think the outer face was sealed with black paint or sometimes gold. Anyone else remember these or am I having a weird fantasy?

Well, real or not, if this house is 30s – 50s then it must have one too – or something similar.

One plastic dish, randomly painted on the outside

and black painted on top when the paint and metallic pens were dry.

Might do OK there, once it’s got some sweets in it 🙂

This Saturday is a general klutz day. My hands are dropping everything and I’ve nearly knocked over more than one pot of paint, so the above is about all for today.

With the exception of these

Every time I make a web search for Deco items I always exclude all the Egyptian inspired bits, but they caught up with me today with this period photo. It’s about the only 3D item that exists on this floating sitting room wall as it theoretically shouldn’t smash up against anything when the house is being opened and closed.

However, the light switch area will, so I’ve tried out some flat ones for the area with the tight corner fit.